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Foreclosure   Listen
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Foreclosure  n.  The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Foreclosure" Quotes from Famous Books



... supervision, but the percentage of farms mortgaged is less in the South than in any other part of the country except the Mountain Division, and unofficial testimony indicates that few farms are lost through foreclosure. ...
— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson

... of his mortgage. What of his crops and barn destroyed, I knew he would be unable to meet it. So I got a shrewd, close-mouthed, tight-fisted money-lender to get the mortgage transferred to him. I did not appear but through this agent I forced the foreclosure, and but few days (no more, believe me, than the law allowed) were given John Claverhouse to remove his goods and chattels from the premises. Then I strolled down to see how he took it, for he had lived there upward of twenty years. ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London

... hotly against the meanness and injustice of Gedney Raffer. He had practically threatened Toby with foreclosure on his little farm if the old lumberman would not help him in his contention with Mr. Sherwood. On the other hand, Uncle Henry desired his help; but Uncle Henry, Nan knew, would not try to bribe the old lumberman. Under these distressing circumstances, which antagonist's ...
— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr

... felt it was right to do—to do what was so horrible to me? I will—I will make up to you and them for keeping me from—it. What do you suppose Mr. Newsome will do when he finds out that you have moved and are ready to turn the place over to him, even without any foreclosure?" ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess

... hospital. The wife was unable to meet the instalments promptly, and the firm threatened to take away her furniture. She asked the agent of a charitable organization to intercede for her. This gentleman wrote to the firm and begged them to postpone their foreclosure, and mercifully give the poor family a little more time. But this they absolutely refused to do, and came in the midst of the raw winds of March, and took all the household furniture away, including ...
— White Slaves • Louis A Banks

... breaks in, "and then the Sheriff tackin' a foreclosure notice on the front door. I know how them boom ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... could save him from utter ruin. It had lately been proved that the Rovero family, instead of being rich, were extremely poor, their plantation having long been under a mortgage, the holder of which was threatening foreclosure. ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams



Words linked to "Foreclosure" :   foreclose, proceedings, legal proceeding, proceeding



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